Handbag frame assembly



March 9, 1948. s. GIORDANO V HANDBAG FRAME ASSEMBLY Filed March 1.4, 1946 /NVENTOR kflf) O A TTORNEX Patented Mar. 9, 1948 ED STATES RATENT OFFICE 1 Claim. 3

This invention relates to improvements in bag frames, for example bag frames used in the manufacture of ladies handbags.

It is the object of the invention to provide a bag frame having leg members provided with novel means for assembly thereof in simulation of integral plates at the ends of the frame members.

It is the further object of the invention to provide means for assembling the leg members of the frame member sections in such manner that said leg members may have secured thereto ornamental plates by a facile and convenient method.

These and other advantageous objects, which will later appear, are accomplished by the structure shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bag frame ernbodying my invention, the frame sections being shown in open position,

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view thereof, with frame sections shown in closed position,

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of one of the finishing plates to be secured to the frame member sections,

Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectional View taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal transverse sectional view taken on line 5--5 of Fi 1.

As shown in the drawings, the bag frame F embodying my invention, comprises two complementary frame sections If], H provided with leg members l2, l3, Hi and i5, said sections being pivoted together at their free ends it and H to enable them to swing toward and away from each other to close and open the bag. The frame sections may be made of any convenient material and may be fabricated as shown in the drawings, with the leg members directed at right angles to the longitudinal axis A'A of the frame sections proper. It will be understood that the frame F may be provided with any suitable means to secure the handbag material thereto, as will be obvious to those skilled in this art.

Each of the leg members is provided with a plurality-for example, as shown in the drawings, two lugs 22, 23 struck up therefrom, and projecting outwardly, each lug being provided with a free end which may be enlarged or provided with protuberances or serrations as at 25, 2'5. Said lugs are designed for reception within recesses 25 of finishing plates 2 said recesses being equal in nurnber and spacing to the lugs of the leg members of the frame. The recesses 25 generally correspond in cross-section to the cross-section of the lugs, but are of smaller cross-section than the enlarged portions '26, 21 of the lugs.

By the arrangement described, to assemble the plates 24 onto the frame F, said plates are forced onto the lugs, the latter passing into the recesses 25 of the plates, the enlarged ends 26, 21 of the lugs biting into the material of the plates to interlock therewith and rigidly afiixing the plates in superimposed, finishing relation to the leg members of the frame sections. The plates secured to the opposed leg members of the frame sections have straight edges 28 designed to have abutting relation with one another when the frame F is closed as shown in Fig. 2 and are preferably of such contour as to present a continuous and pleasing outline and ornamental finishing appearance and covering for the ends of the hand bag frame.

By the structure described, it is possible to utilize inexpensive leg members which may have affixed thereto finishing plates of highly ornamental material.

The plates 2G may be made of any suitable material, for example, they may be made of plastic material, and, as will be apparent from a consideration of the foregoing, a highly attractive, finished appearance may be attained by the meth- 0d and structure outlined herein.

While the leg members are shown as being made of a fiat material and directed at right angles to the longitudinal axis AA of the frame sections proper, said leg members may be made of circular or other cross-sectional outiine within the purview of the invention.

The frames F are made of metal or other material, which is harder than the material of plates 24, the latter being preferably made of plastic or other similar material so that the lugs will bite into the recesses, whereby positive locking of the lugs within the plates 2 occurs on assembly.

The lugs 22, 23 may be bent at precisely right angles to the leg members or slightly off the right angle position as at an acute or obstuse angle, either deliberately or in the deviations which might occur in manufacture; such deviations from a right angle would further tend to wedge the lugs Within the recesses in the plates.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a bag frame provided with a pair of similar sections, said sections including leg members pivoted together at their free ends, said leg members being disposed at right angles to the axis of said frame sections, upstanding lugs struck up from said leg members and projecting outwardly therefrom at substantial right angles thereto, enlarged ends on said lugs, finishing plates provided with recesses to frictionally receive the lugs, the spacing of the recesses of the plates corresponding to the spacing of the said lugs, the said recesses being of lesser cross-sectional area than the enlarged ends of the lugs, the plates secured to the opposed leg members of said sections having straight edges designed to have abutting relation with one another when the frame sections are closed, the plates being of a softer material than the lugs so that the enlarged ends of the latter will bite into the material of the plates defining said recesses, on assembly, to interlock plates and leg members.

SALVATORE GIORDANO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

Great Britain June 23, 1932 

